Franziskus Scharpff and Kay Van Praagh of Ground Zero Berlin designed and pre programmed the system. Ground Zero's Rutger van Dijk, Koos Maris, Franziskus Scharpff, Sierk Janszen and Jörg Müller did the entire on site programming and operating. The Medialon Manager was controlled directly by cuelist on Excel sheets through a layer of ODBC. The Tonline booth consisted of three individual stages that all controlled by a Medialon Manager Pro system. Each system controlled two Q-Players, one VMOD player, one Folsom video switcher, five Director Flash PCs, one SetTop box, live video streams, three TFT screens and one Barco R18 projector. Some of the computers were also connected to the internet to demonstrate the new T-Online internet portal by Telekom.
Aside from these stages, Ground Zero was also responsible for the controls of the T-com stage on the Telekom stand For the IBM stand in hall 1, Ground Zero supplied programming and design assistance for the German division of Creative Technologies. Here three Medialon Managers, controlling Doremi Video players, Barco LED walls Pioneer DVD Players, Kramer Switches, and 3 Medialon Sync Players, controlled three individual presentation stages. During intermissions the individual Manager systems synchronized to a "Stand-Wide" presentation.
All together eight Medialon Manager ShowControl Systems were programmed and maintained by Ground Zero at CeBit 2004.
(Lee Baldock)
